Three days before an election is too late to sack undesirable candidates, so Tony Abbott will be hoping Jaymes Diaz and others can keep their heads down and avoid further embarrassment.

Mr Diaz, the candidate for the marginal seat of Greenway in western Sydney, who made global news with a catastrophic interview during the first week of the campaign, has been avoiding journalists ever since.

So assiduous has Mr Diaz been in avoiding media questioning, that Fairfax Media published a video of one of its journalists attempting a two-day search for the candidate, while the Blacktown Sun published an editorial titled “Where's Jayme?” accompanied by a mock-up image of Mr Diaz dressed as the cartoon character Wally from the Where's Wally books.

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“It took more than a dozen emails, phone calls and posts made on his website over a two-week period to receive a 134-word text message explaining he had been 'flat out'."

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Since his first televised interview, during which he could not recall any of the points on the Liberals' six-point plan to stop the boats, Mr Diaz has been chaperoned by Liberal minders to avoid further gaffes.

At his Wednesday press conference Mr Abbott was asked why people should vote for Mr Diaz given he refuses to answer basic questions about Liberal Party policies.

“People should vote for Jaymes Diaz … They should vote for all of our candidates, because our candidates will vote to scrap the carbon tax, to end the waste, to stop the boats and to build the roads.”

Mr Abbott added: “On Jaymes Diaz, he had a bad day with some journalists, OK.

“It doesn't make him a bad candidate and my understanding is that he did an interview yesterday where he was absolutely across all of the various plans and policies that we've got.”

A News Corp journalist finally caught up with Mr Diaz this week. After trying to end the interview several times, Mr Diaz said "of course I can name the six points" of the Coalition's plan to stop the boats. This time he got five out of six.

Meanwhile, the Opposition Leader is dealing with another problem candidate in Western Australia.

A news report in The Australian on Wednesday said the Liberal Party was “standing by a real estate portfolio manager who referred to his tenants as illiterate animals, boasted about evicting them by 'forklift and dumptruck' and said he always negotiated harder with women to let them know he would not play their games”.

A journalist suggested to Mr Abbott on Wednesday, that his candidate for Perth, Darryl Moore, has “got to go, doesn't he?”

Mr Abbott said he was aware of some “over-the-top statements that were made quite a few years ago in the course of discussion on the web”.

“Look [Mr Moore] thinks that they were wrong and inappropriate and he's said so," Mr Abbott said.

In response to the allegations, Mr Moore released a statement in which he admits that “eight years ago I contributed comments to an online property forum".

“Some of these comments were poorly worded and could be misinterpreted,” Mr Moore said.

“The comments related to an industrial property, not family homes."

At another press conference on Wednesday in Penrith, Mr Abbott deflected questions about another of his western Sydney candidates, Fiona Scott, who is running for the marginal seat of Lindsay.

The Opposition Leader said it was Labor Premier Bob Carr who had originally described Sydney as being "full".

Labor deputy leader Anthony Albanese said Liberal candidates were hiding from community seminars across the country and being kept out of the spotlight.

‘‘It is Tories in hiding ... you can’t find them. I say to Liberal candidates - come out, come out, wherever you are! We want to see you. You are running in an election campaign, you can’t be hiding. There might be one behind the tree over there? It is extraordinary behaviour from an arrogant political party that are taking Australians for granted.’’